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Archive for June, 2009

Leland | Brunswick Forest in Leland will host a free concert Friday evening, kicking off a summer series of three planned concerts in the big development on U.S. 17. The Backbeat, a Chapel Hill-based Beatles and rock ’n’ roll tribute band, will play from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Brunswick Forest’s Annsdale Park.

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RALEIGH — A proposed state budget and tax plan to ease some cuts inside the spending proposal has cleared two major hurdles in the North Carolina House.

The House Appropriations Committee recommended a nearly $18 billion spending plan for next year late Tuesday night after considering dozens of amendments.

But the chamber’s finance committee also agreed late to $780 million in tax increases pushed by Democrats.

More committee scrutiny is expected Wednesday before the changes are voted on by the full House, probably by the end of the week. It’s all designed to get a new budget to Gov. Beverly Perdue this summer.

House Republicans like neither deep spending cuts nor the taxes and say the $4 billion-plus budget gap for next year is exaggerated.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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A proposed state budget and tax plan to ease some cuts inside the spending proposal has cleared two major hurdles in the North Carolina House.

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Carolina Beach may have an arsonist at work. Police said two fires broke out in less than 24 hours in a building along the Carolina Beach Boardwalk.

The first fire occurred around 7:00 Tuesday morning. The second happened just after 4:00 Tuesday afternoon.

The building is under construction and was vacant at the time.

Investigators said both fires look very suspicious, and they are looking for leads as who may have started them. “We hope to put an end to it tonight. I don’t know if any arrests will be made as of yet, but we are going to identify all the players involved,” said Sgt. Harry Humphries of the Carolina Beach Police Department.

Police sealed off the building Tuesday as investigators worked the scene.

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Carolina Beach may have an arsonist at work. Police said two fires broke out in less than 24 hours in a building along the Carolina Beach Boardwalk.

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1959: Large porcupines escape from local zooThe following historical perspective, compiled from Star-News archives at the University of North Carolina Wilmington Randall Library, takes readers back to the Cape Fear region of years past.100 years ago